Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-11-03 Nov 3, 2022To vest a few fallible men -- prosecutors, judges, jurors -- with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J.S. Mill called the "moral police" is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products... If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do otherwise to a work of a genius. Originality, not too plentiful, should be cherished, not stifled. An author's imagination may be cramped if he must write with an eye on prosecutors or juries…~ Jerome D. FrankThe priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning.... And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and eyes.~ John AdamsA free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.~ Walter Lippmann Nov 2, 2022No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).~ Frederic BastiatThe tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.~ Paul Craig RobertsPrivate property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.~ Walter Lippmann Nov 1, 2022Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes.~ Thomas SowellWe will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.~ Lou EricksonIf ... our bureaucratic masters are becoming more akin to Soviet-style or Eastern European counterparts, it was rarely seen as a plus that those central schemers had wonderful intentions with their five-year plans. Such goals as "job safety," "equality," and freedom from "discrimination," depending on their definitions, may be good things for society, but they were never intended to be the business of the federal government.~ William P. Hoar Oct 31, 2022Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.~ Thomas I. EmersonIf a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.~ Vaclav HavelYour book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.~ Voltaire Oct 28, 2022It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.~ Tom StoppardHistory is fables agreed upon.~ VoltaireThe short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.~ Will Rogers Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print